What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.